Using interviews, re-enactments, archaeological research, and original documents, it explores massacres in Sydney, Tasmania, and Queensland.

In response to the series, the Australian War Memorial announced it would work towards great inclusion of the violence against Indigenous people in its exhibitions.

[4] Blackfella Films and SBS collaborated with an Aboriginal-led organisation called Culture is Life to publish educational resources using short clips from the series.

[1] It focuses particularly on Aboriginal resistance to settlement,[7] and explores the lives of those involved in the wars, as well as its impact and legacy on Australia today[2] and what has been called "the great Australian silence" about many of the massacres.

[9] The series weaves together interviews with indigenous and non-indigenous historians including Marcia Langton and Henry Reynolds, re-enactments of events, study of colonial records, oral testimony from survivors' descendants and archaeological research.

[14] Author Peter O'Brien called "a new myth" the claim "that the Aborigines [sic] fought a series of sustained wars of resistance".

[11] In an episode of the series, the War Memorial's director Matt Anderson says it was conceived to represent military activity overseas, not within Australia.

[16][9] A week after the series premiered, however, the War Memorial's outgoing chair, former government minister Brendan Nelson, announced the Memorial's governing council would work towards a "much broader, a much deeper depiction and presentation of the violence committed against Indigenous people, initially by British, then by pastoralists, then by police, and then by Aboriginal militia".

[25] The script, by Jacob Hickey, Rachel Perkins and Don Watson, was shortlisted for the Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting at the 2023 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.